Untethered: A Woman’s Search for Self on the Edge of India––A Travel Memoir
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A bold and honest memoir of a woman’s solo, 7,000-mile, five-month motorcycle journey on the edge of India, seeking to discover her true self.
The end of an editorial position with a news service in New Delhi led to the beginning of an impossible journey for C. L. Stambush, and a last chance to break free from a confining identity.
As a girl, she hugged the wall of her grade school hall, afraid of what might happen if she let go; now she clings to a Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle in a quest to prove to herself she “can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone” she wants.
Never having ridden a motorcycle before, she buys a Bullet and names it Kali after the badass Hindu goddess of rebirth, hoping to gain some of her grrrr. Stambush plans to discover the fifty-one Hindu shakti peetha temples, containing pieces of the goddess—lips, wrists, heart—sacred sites believed to possess the power to transform, in an attempt to rewrite her persona.
Along the way she is reshaped as she encounters friendly families and ominous men, confronts culture clashes, hijras, and bandits, experiences monsoons, scorching deserts, and homicidal drivers, crashing her motorcycle and learning about herself as she loses her camera, her way, and her self-control—crossing lines she never imagined possible.
The suspenseful and honest prose of Untethered: A Woman's Search for Self on the Edge of India––A Travel Memoir immerses readers in India’s diverse culture while vividly conveying the harrowing and triumphant journey of a woman alone, in a world where women don’t travel alone, discovering her true grit.
C. L. Stambush
C.L. Stambush is a journalist, writer, and, editor who has lived, worked and traveled in more than 20 countries. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Far Eastern Economic Review, Travelers’ Tales, as well as national and international newspapers. She is the recipient of awards, scholarships, and residencies from Hedgebrook Writers Colony, RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Split Rock Arts Program, and Indiana University Writers’ Conference, where an early chapter from this book was judged Best Creative Nonfiction by Scott Russell Sanders.She lived in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for six years, traveling by foot, train, truck, bus, boat, camel, donkey cart, and motorcycle. After returning to the United States, she was recruited to become a national motorcycle safety instructor where she trained hundreds of people (many of them women) to ride safely during her fourteen-year tenure.To inquire about booking C.L. Stambush for a speaking engagement, please contact the author at hello@clstambush.com. Visit the author’s website.
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